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Sontag: Her Life and Work

作者 Benjamin Moser
出版社 Ingram International Inc
商品描述 Sontag: Her Life and Work:《桑塔格》★2020年普立茲傳記文學獎得獎鉅著★NowriterisasemblematicoftheAmericantwentiethcenturyasSusanSontag.Mythologizedandmisunders

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內容簡介 ★二○二○年普立茲傳記文學獎 得獎鉅著★☆蘇珊.桑塔格生平最完整重要傳記☆她的著述,犀利而挑釁,引領思辨,永遠地改變了我們「看見」事物的方式。然而在這背後,卻是桑塔格為「看見」事物、「看見」自我真貌而掙扎的一生。「從一生深刻而漫長地接觸美學所獲得的智慧,是不能被任何其他種類的嚴肅性所複製的。」——蘇珊.桑塔格「……我們現在比任何時候都更需要〔桑塔格〕,而這本傳記讓她繼續挑釁地活著……」——《衛報》書評蘇珊.桑塔格出生在一九三三年的紐約。父母是立陶宛與波蘭猶太人的後裔,兩人婚後曾經短暫居住在中國,但父親在中國時死於肺結核病,使得母親因而必須孤身踏上漫長的旅途回到美國。桑塔格的母親美麗優雅,但一生深受不安全感所苦。桑塔格非常早就展現出不凡的聰穎天賦。生活在如她母親這般受困的大人當中,她憑藉超齡早熟的閱讀,讓自己進入到文學、藝術、哲學的世界。十八歲就從芝加哥大學畢業,並被選為學術菁英團體Phi Beta Kappa的一員。大學畢業後,桑塔格首先在學院從事教學,但很快地,她便重新定義了二十世紀「作家」所能發揮的巨大文化影響力。一九六○年代起,桑塔格陸續發表小說、評論。她以一種全新的語言、全新的光芒照亮了當時文化界的天空。對於美國高雅文化圈的圈內人而言,桑塔格是一股嶄新的源頭活水。經她介紹的歐洲作者、小眾藝術家的名字,與經她描述的作品與現象,幾乎一定會引起關注與討論,成為下一波潮流。彷彿她總能看見醞釀中的、尚未成形的風暴,指認那還未有名字的事物。她的目光超越高雅文化的圈內與圈外,看見事物的價值,將旁人未能理解的人物或作品帶入文化圈內。很長時間她就是高雅文化的象徵,她的評論代表著支撐起高雅文化的嚴格標準。不僅如此,從《反詮釋》、《論攝影》、《疾病的隱喻》,到《旁觀他人之痛苦》,桑塔格一本又一本觀點精闢的評論集,擴大了人們「看見」的範疇,改變人們「看見」事物的方式。然而少有人知的是,外人眼中聰明絕頂的桑塔格,私下深受焦慮所苦。她經常感到自己身心分離,羨慕更加憑藉身體與直覺行動的人。經常恐懼自己「看不見」真正重要的事物。★ 她的一生中有過許多情人,同性和異性都有,當中不乏政治、藝術、文學、電影各界的名人,當中有些人與她維繫了終其一生獨特的關係。然而,也有不少失戀令她陷入痛苦深淵。★ 她對「看不見」真相的恐懼,也包括對被冷戰意識形態、被國家宣傳所遮蔽的事物。這使得她走到歷史現場。親自拜訪越戰剛結束的越南,革命後的中國、古巴,贖罪日戰爭時的以色列,走入柏林圍牆倒塌的現場,與內戰中的塞拉耶佛。即使,到了現場,她體驗到另一種遮蔽。★ 中年之後,她罹患癌症,在病榻上以親身經歷對疾病進行了省思。她無法停止意識到自己、意識到世界,於是便不斷去理解那意識,意識背後的機制。★ 她是他人眼中菁英文化圈的局內人,卻時時感到自己是無法獲得安慰的局外人。這是一位絕頂聰明的女性,對自己在世間的存在有無盡的焦慮。她的文字總能如一根劃亮的火柴般照亮夜空,令人們看見原本看不見的。但是她自身無法安住在被照亮的範圍。然而她的一生,也讓我們看見一個長久浸淫在藝術與美學中的人生。她反抗想像力的貧瘠。擁抱思辨與審美,拒絕平庸,毫無保留地欣賞她喜愛的藝術家與作家,將他們不為大眾所知的獨特向讀者揭露。在人生的最後,她曾說:「從一生深刻而漫長地接觸美學所獲得的智慧,是不能被任何其他種類的嚴肅性所複製的。」本傑明.莫瑟的《桑塔格》,是截至目前,關於蘇珊.桑塔格這位二十世紀文化界巨擘最為全面、整體的傳記。莫瑟進行了大量驚人的研究,不但深入檔案資料,更追索桑塔格的腳步,在世界各地採訪了曾直接或間接接觸過、曾談論過或未曾公開談論過她的人,從而描繪出了桑塔格精彩豐富的一生,與她複雜的性格與面貌。也因此,本書榮獲二○二○年普立茲獎殊榮。本中文書介出自《桑塔格》衛城出版WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEFinalist for the Lambda Literary AwardFinalist for the PEN Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by: O Magazine, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Seattle TimesThe definitive portrait of one of the American Century’s most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private faceNo writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, radicalism and Fascism and Freudianism and Communism and Americanism, that forms an indispensable key to modern culture. She was there when the Cuban Revolution began, and when the Berlin Wall came down; in Vietnam under American bombardment, in wartime Israel, in besieged Sarajevo. She was in New York when artists tried to resist the tug of money—and when many gave in. No writer negotiated as many worlds; no serious writer had as many glamorous lovers. Sontag tells these stories and examines the work upon which her reputation was based. It explores the agonizing insecurity behind the formidable public face: the broken relationships, the struggles with her sexuality, that animated—and undermined—her writing. And it shows her attempts to respond to the cruelties and absurdities of a country that had lost its way, and her conviction that fidelity to high culture was an activism of its own. Utilizing hundreds of interviews conducted from Maui to Stockholm and from London to Sarajevo—and featuring nearly one hundred images—Sontag is the first book based on the writer’s restricted archives, and on access to many people who have never before spoken about Sontag, including Annie Leibovitz. It is a definitive portrait—a great American novel in the form of a biography."

作者介紹

作者介紹 Benjamin MoserBenjamin Moser was born in Houston. He is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award and a New York Times Notable Book. For his work bringing Clarice Lispector to international prominence, he received Brazil’s first State Prize for Cultural Diplomacy. He has published translations from French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch. A former books columnist for Harper’s Magazine and The New York Times Book Review, he has also written for The New Yorker, Conde Nast Traveler, and The New York Review of Books.

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書名 / Sontag: Her Life and Work
作者 / Benjamin Moser
簡介 / Sontag: Her Life and Work:《桑塔格》★2020年普立茲傳記文學獎得獎鉅著★NowriterisasemblematicoftheAmericantwentiethcenturyasSusanSontag.Mythologizedandmisunders
出版社 / Ingram International Inc
ISBN13 / 9780062896407
ISBN10 / 0062896407
EAN / 9780062896407
誠品26碼 / 2682151872002
頁數 / 832
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裝訂 / P:平裝
語言 / 3:英文
尺寸 / 22.6X15.2X5.1CM
級別 / N:無
重量(g) / 997.9

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